A person of interest in a string of rapes near Fair Park has been arrested.

Alan Mason was taken into custody for police questioning shortly after 3 a.m. Friday after police arrested him at an apartment complex in Arlington. Dallas police had tracked a vehicle linked to Mason to a residence in Mesquite. A relative told police where to find Mason.

Arlington and Dallas police located Mason at an apartment in the 2500 block of Summer Tree Circle near Brown Boulevard in north Arlington.

He was arrested on an outstanding warrant for probation violation for driving while intoxicated. He also had outstanding tickets in McKinney and Mesquite.

Police are looking for Alan Mason, 29, after an anonymous tipster told police that Mason said he needed to get out of town because he had done something wrong. The tipster also provided police with an address, located in the area where the attacks have occurred.

The tipster also told police that Mason wears gold-rimmed glasses — the same kind that police said the suspect wore.

Police went to the location and located a 2001 silver Honda. Once officers ran the license plate, they found Mason has an outstanding warrant in Dallas County for a probation violation.

Police said Mason is about 5-foot-10, weighs 185 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 911, police said.

Records show Mason pleaded guilty to a DWI charge in Dallas County in 2011.

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